What is machinestate CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for machinestate, a system-health reporter for Ubuntu and other Linux systems, with implementations in Go and Zig.

Building either implementation, running tests, validating JSON and MCP tool output, benchmarking, cleaning artifacts, installing the program, and creating x86_64 builds.

They document the project’s required build, test, validation, benchmarking, installation, and cross-compilation procedures so changes can be checked consistently.

How reza-ebrahimi/machinestate configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to reza-ebrahimi/machinestate. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reza-ebrahimi/machinestate/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reza-ebrahimi/machinestate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3,693 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,693 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03693	$0.03693
Opus 5.5	$0.01477	$0.01477
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00739	$0.00739
Haiku 4.5	$0.00369	$0.00369

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d106b40634c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

machinestate CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo dpkg -i ../machinestate-go_1.0.0_amd64.deb

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl http://localhost:8080/health

CLAUDE.md · 457 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 457 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with this project.

Project Overview

machinestate is a system health reporter for Ubuntu/Linux systems that generates comprehensive system state reports. It collects system metrics, detects issues, and outputs reports in multiple formats with continuous streaming support.

Two implementations:

go/ - Go implementation using gopsutil library
zig/ - Zig implementation with native system calls

Both implementations follow the specification in spec/ and produce identical JSON output.

Build Commands

Using Makefile (Recommended)

make all          # Build both Go and Zig implementations
make go           # Build Go only
make zig          # Build Zig release
make debug        # Build Zig debug
make test         # Run unit tests for both
make validate     # Validate JSON output against schema
make validate-mcp # Validate all 14 MCP tools against their schemas
make benchmark    # Run performance benchmarks (requires hyperfine)
make clean        # Remove build artifacts
make install      # Install to /usr/local/bin

# Cross-compilation
make build-amd64       # Build for x86_64 (GNU libc)
make build-arm64       # Build for ARM64 (GNU libc)
make build-amd64-musl  # Build for x86_64 (musl - static)
make build-arm64-musl  # Build for ARM64 (musl - static)
make build-all-arch    # Build all architectures
make release           # Build all and copy to dist/

# Docker
make docker-build-go   # Build Go Docker image
make docker-build-zig  # Build Zig Docker image
make docker-build      # Build both images
make docker-run-go     # Run Go container (port 8080)
make docker-run-zig    # Run Zig container (port 8081)
make docker-compose-up # Run both via docker-compose

Direct Commands

Go:

cd go/
go build -o machinestate .
go test ./...

Zig:

cd zig/
zig build                        # Debug build
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast # Release build
zig build test                   # Run tests

Read the full file on GitHub · 457 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 457 lines · 3,693 tokens per session scan B d106b40634c5

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machinestate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository reza-ebrahimi/machinestate (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,693 tokens to every session, about $0.0148 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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